Saturday, September 22, 2012

Cleansing with Facial Oils



Some people are wary of using an oil cleanser for their face, but in reality oil is a great way to treat your skin.  We have been taught to think oil causes acne or oily skin, but actually a combination of many factors including hormones, bacteria and dirt cause skin to break out.  What’s worse is that many of us use harsh cleansers which actually strip of skin of needed nutrients and can cause our skin to overproduce oil in an attempt to correct the skin’s nature balance.  Three Muses Facial Oil cleans without stripping the skin.  Simply massage a few drops into your skin to dissolve makeup and grime.  Then our unique water soluble formula rinses completely off.  You will feel an immediate difference in that there won’t be that tight and dry feeling.   Three Muses Facial Oil is available in two formulas: Age Control & Acne Control 

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Today's Tincture



Tincturing is a wonderful way to capture the natural essence of herbs; and it is so easy to do. To make a tincture, grind up fresh or dried herbs, place in glass container and cover with alcohol (because I use the tincture only in perfumes – I use perfumer’s grade alcohol which is odorless and colorless). The tinctures need to be cured anywhere from 10 days to 2 months – depending on the herb being tinctured and the desired strength of the final scent.

Today I am tincturing juniper berries in honor of the weather turning cooler. There are two fragrances on my mind as I prepare the juniper berries today. One is a Holiday scent with frankincense, juniper, tonka and vanilla as a base – and spicy orange for the heart of the scent. I also want to create an herbal mixture that will play up the crisp, fresh scent of juniper with a blend of rosemary and lavender. Both will be great fragrances for the Fall season.

I am also going to use some of the left over dried herbs to make small sachet. I use small muslin bags with a drawstring and fill with the ground dried herbs. The sachet can be put into drawers and closets and even better, the sachet can be hung from the faucet as the water runs into the tub. This creates a wonderfully scented bath.

Leave me a comment and let me know what scents the cooler weather is bringing to your mind today…